The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge
Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.
– David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993
Geek Attitude
The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
Definitely the only way to travel.
– Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.
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The Day of the Triffids
The BBC is to remake the John Wyndham classic “The Day of the Triffids”. Could be interesting! I read the book when I was still at school, that must have been 1976-77 or so.
After this book I also read Wyndham’s “The Chrysalids” and “The Midwich Cuckoos”. Now, older and wiser, I consider Wyndham as a “soft” sciencefiction writer, but I found his short story “The Wheel” very impressive.
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